The Straight Dope Lounge (a modern "colossal cave adventure" game)

> Return flask

> feed came
> moun came
> ride came
> dism

> restore

The parrot squawks, “NEW KRAKEN STUFF” in your ear!

The parrot slurps down the rum, hiccups loudly, and falls to the floor on its back. The burly man laughs.

There is nothing left in the flask.

A voice comes over hidden speakers saying, “OpalCat, please report to the Game Room. OpalCat to the Game Room, please.”

You hand the flask to the burly man. He tucks it into his belt, frowns at the parrot, and pulls a long gently-curved scimitar from a scabbard at his side.

He holds the scimitar out to you and says, “Here be your prize.”

There is no camel here.

There is no camel here.

There is no camel here.

You are not mounted.

Are you sure you wish to restore? All progress since the last save will be lost.

[Y/N]>

> N

> Save

> Use Scimitar on Threads

>Charlie Sheen

> plover

> cast TRZP

OOG: I’m glad you correctly parsed “came” as “camel.” Good job.

Restore cancelled.

Game saved.

You must have moderator powers to split threads.

There is no Charlie Sheen here.

You are in the wrong room.

I don’t know how to cast TRZP (and I don’t see any traps, anyway).

:wink:

>

> :wink:

> :rolleyes:

> :smack:

> :frowning:

> :slight_smile:

> :eek:

> (>o.o)> <(o.o<) (>o.o<) <(o.o)>

>Open thread

> pick up parrot

> give parrot to man

> stab man with scimitar

> get parrot

> get flask

> x man

> get all from man

Current status checks…

> inventory
> spells
> diagnose
> score
> look

Bonus points to Wombat for knowing what TRZP affects. But IIRC, it works on hidden traps as well as detected traps.

Good idea

> map
> snarks
> witticisms
> cunning barbs
> specialized skills
> specialized knowledge
> ?

True. Assuming you are referring to Interplay’s The Bard’s Tale trilogy.

Trilogy? I heard rumors of a third game that would have destroyed continuity, setting, and purpose. But I don’t think it was ever released.

Yes. Bard’s Tale was the first in a trilogy that was going to be called “Tales of the Unknown”. The followups were to be “The Archmage’s Tale” and “The Thief’s Tale”.

But the name “Bard’s Tale”, rather than “Tales of the Unknown” became the thing people focused on, so they kept Bard’s Tale as the name of the sequels (Subtitle’s renamed to “The Destiny Knight” and “Thief of Fate”.)

The third game occurs after The Mad God has destroyed Skara Brae and it’s environs.

Impossible. Tarjan was slain in BT I. There was NO BT3: Thief of Fate. And as long as I continue to believe that, it never existed! :stuck_out_tongue:

> curb off-topicness